The entire process of living in Zimbabwe is somewhat of a risk at the current time, so you might imagine that there would be little appetite for patronizing Zimbabwe’s gambling dens. Actually, it appears to be working the opposite way around, with the crucial economic conditions leading to a higher ambition to gamble, to try and discover a quick win, a way from the crisis.
For many of the locals subsisting on the meager local wages, there are two established forms of wagering, the state lotto and Zimbet. Just as with most everywhere else on the globe, there is a national lottery where the odds of hitting are unbelievably low, but then the jackpots are also very high. It’s been said by financial experts who understand the idea that the majority don’t purchase a ticket with a real belief of hitting. Zimbet is built on one of the national or the United Kingston football divisions and involves predicting the results of future games.
Zimbabwe’s gambling dens, on the other hand, pamper the very rich of the country and sightseers. Up until not long ago, there was a considerably big sightseeing business, centered on safaris and visits to Victoria Falls. The market woes and associated bloodshed have cut into this market.
Among Zimbabwe’s gambling halls, there are two in the capital, Harare, the Carribea Bay Resort and Casino, which has five gaming tables and slot machines, and the Plumtree gambling hall, which has just the slots. The Zambesi Valley Hotel and Entertainment Center in Kariba also has just slot machines. Mutare contains the Monclair Hotel and Casino and the Leopard Rock Hotel and Casino, the pair of which have table games, slot machines and electronic poker machines, and Victoria Falls has the Elephant Hills Hotel and Casino and the Makasa Sun Hotel and Casino, the two of which has gaming machines and blackjack, roulette, and craps tables.
In addition to Zimbabwe’s casinos and the above alluded to lottery and Zimbet (which is quite like a parimutuel betting system), there is a total of two horse racing tracks in the nation: the Matabeleland Turf Club in Bulawayo (the second municipality) and the Borrowdale Park in Harare.
Since the market has shrunk by beyond forty percent in the past few years and with the connected deprivation and violence that has cropped up, it is not known how healthy the vacationing industry which supports Zimbabwe’s gambling dens will do in the next few years. How many of the casinos will still be around till conditions get better is merely unknown.
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